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Wheat City lawyer to fill MPI post

Another Brandonite will chair the Manitoba Public Insurance’s board of directors.

Veteran lawyer Jake Janzen has been appointed by Premier Greg Selinger to take on the role from fellow Brandonite Shari Decter Hirst.

Decter Hirst will vacate the position she has held for more than a decade at the end of the month to focus on her upcoming mayoral campaign, though the announcement of Janzen as incoming chair was made public by the province yesterday.

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